The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Milton Keynes region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 39 51 42
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -9
Contract jobs citing OO 15 14 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.890% 1.950% 2.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.000% 2.935% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 11
Average daily rate £375 £343 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.48% +21.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £375 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £332 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
375 477 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.25% 66.43% 58.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 219 156
Average daily rate £345 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.15% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £210 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 34
Average hourly rate £18.45 £15.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £17.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
OO
Buckinghamshire

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OO across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Milton Keynes OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OO across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes OO Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Milton Keynes OO Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OO across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing OO also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OO.

1 16 (55.17%) JavaScript
2 15 (51.72%) .NET
2 15 (51.72%) CSS
3 14 (48.28%) C#
3 14 (48.28%) Finance
3 14 (48.28%) Ajax
4 11 (37.93%) MVC
4 11 (37.93%) ASP.NET
5 9 (31.03%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (27.59%) Dojo
6 8 (27.59%) Use Case
6 8 (27.59%) XML
6 8 (27.59%) Java
7 7 (24.14%) N-Tier
7 7 (24.14%) J2EE
7 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
7 7 (24.14%) WCF
7 7 (24.14%) JSON
8 6 (20.69%) Software Architecture
8 6 (20.69%) HTML5
8 6 (20.69%) Spring
8 6 (20.69%) DHTML
8 6 (20.69%) JDBC
8 6 (20.69%) JSP
8 6 (20.69%) Servlets
8 6 (20.69%) Struts
8 6 (20.69%) OOA/OOD
8 6 (20.69%) JMS
8 6 (20.69%) HTTP
8 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing OO also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (51.72%) .NET
1 15 (51.72%) CSS
2 14 (48.28%) Ajax
3 11 (37.93%) ASP.NET
4 8 (27.59%) XML
4 8 (27.59%) Dojo
5 7 (24.14%) WCF
5 7 (24.14%) JSON
5 7 (24.14%) J2EE
6 6 (20.69%) DHTML
6 6 (20.69%) JDBC
6 6 (20.69%) JSP
6 6 (20.69%) Servlets
6 6 (20.69%) Struts
6 6 (20.69%) JMS
6 6 (20.69%) Spring
6 6 (20.69%) HTML5
7 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (17.24%) Hibernate
7 5 (17.24%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.897%) CMS
1 2 (6.897%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.448%) Moodle
2 1 (3.448%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.448%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.448%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) HTTP
1 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (6.897%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.448%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Ant
1 2 (6.897%) Maven
2 1 (3.448%) Git (software)
2 1 (3.448%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.448%) NMock
2 1 (3.448%) JUnit
2 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.448%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (3.448%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.448%) NUnit
General
1 14 (48.28%) Finance
2 2 (6.897%) Banking
3 1 (3.448%) Retail
3 1 (3.448%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (89.66%) Developer
2 13 (44.83%) .NET Developer
3 8 (27.59%) JavaScript Developer
4 7 (24.14%) Agile .NET Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Web Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (6.897%) .NET Programmer
7 2 (6.897%) Programmer
7 2 (6.897%) Architect
7 2 (6.897%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.448%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.448%) WPF Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Moodle Developer
8 1 (3.448%) UI Programmer
8 1 (3.448%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 1 (3.448%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (3.448%) UI Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Senior UI Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) N-Tier
2 5 (17.24%) Open Source
3 1 (3.448%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.448%) UNIX
1 1 (3.448%) Windows
1 1 (3.448%) AIX
1 1 (3.448%) Solaris
1 1 (3.448%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) MVC
2 9 (31.03%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (27.59%) Use Case
4 6 (20.69%) Software Architecture
4 6 (20.69%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (13.79%) Scrum
5 4 (13.79%) Web Development
6 3 (10.34%) TDD
7 2 (6.897%) UML
7 2 (6.897%) OOP
7 2 (6.897%) E-Commerce
7 2 (6.897%) SOA
8 1 (3.448%) Project Management
8 1 (3.448%) E-business
8 1 (3.448%) Data Modelling
8 1 (3.448%) OOD
8 1 (3.448%) RAD
8 1 (3.448%) RUP
8 1 (3.448%) Zachman Framework
8 1 (3.448%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) JavaScript
2 14 (48.28%) C#
3 8 (27.59%) Java
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 2 (6.897%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.448%) C++
6 1 (3.448%) PHP
6 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.448%) Sun
2 1 (3.448%) ATG
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle
2 1 (3.448%) JBoss
2 1 (3.448%) IBM
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